The Balls Are In The WNBA’s Court

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White, two former NBA players, are stunning and brave women. And if you doubt this in any way, you’re nothing but a transphobic bigot.

Don’t mind their facial hair and male physique. Their social media proclamations and new wigs cancel that right out. Forget the fact that they’ve never mentioned this internal truth during any of their previous decades of life. They say they’re women now, and under the all-holy ideology of gender self-identification, that’s all it takes. As a result, these 6’10” and 6’8” queens are ready and eligible to begin the next chapter of their professional careers: entering the WNBA draft to become record-breaking stars.

Yet although their newfound lady existence should be celebrated for the courageous declaration that it is, many on the all-inclusive, “right-side-of-history” left seem to be questioning their truth, dunking on their WNBA aspirations by suggesting that they aren’t “truly trans” and are instead making fun of the system.

But how could that be? What makes them less sincere than any other trans athlete, and who knows one’s identity any better than oneself? Freedom and White say that they are women now. That is all that matters. Not personal politics nor convenient timing. This is how it works — for them, for the male convicts switching to female prisons, or the rapists demanding that prosecutors refer to specifically male crimes as female. There is no picking or choosing based on which physicality and mentality better satisfy a narrative. Once the gender genie is let out of its sinister bottle, it is out for good.

After all, it’s a technical foul to accuse anyone anywhere of a false identity. The entirety of gender ideology was built and will always lie upon this cornerstone dogma: Internal identity is unquestionable and usurps physical or biological reality. Ironically, it is this ideological constraint, combined with the unavoidable prod of hypocrisy, that inevitably will do the movement in. If one can draw the line at this undeniable folly, the entire concept of self-identification and gender identity falls apart as a result.

If an individual can naturally identify (pun intended) the farce of calling a 6-foot 10-inch bearded dude a woman, he is now left with two choices: Either it is possible to lie about one’s identity, and therefore it cannot be objectively trusted, or there will always be undeniable and identifiable biological differences between men and women. Either society decides to cut its tethers to reason and base rights on skewed fantasy over immutable fact, or we acknowledge a universal understanding that scientific reality still exists and remains supreme against all facets of ideology. Either the WNBA decides to accept Freedom and White as female players and reject the reality of the female league, or reject them as imposters and therefore accept that the idea of self-ID is as fake as their wigs.

It has certainly been popcorn-worthy to watch members of the league squirm over an inevitable situation that their narcissism convinced them would never come to fruition. They had years to prepare a contingency plan for this situation, but brushed it off instead. After all, when one ideology is “in charge” for so long, who would dare question it? Equally entertaining has been watching the left call out these men for making a mockery of gender identity, while remaining blissfully unbothered that such identity ideology itself has always made a mockery of women in the first place.

So let’s be honest for the hypocrites who cannot. Freedom and White are not being mocked for joining the WNBA because they are men — but because they happen to be the wrong kind of men. And their critics are not upset because they actually care about female athletes or societal “progress.” They are upset because they know their own ideology and societal identities are under threat.

Through attempting to expose Freedom and White’s flagrant fraud, they’ve succeeded in exposing their own: No one truly believes that any of these men are women, or they’d never be allowed to get away with this crap. However, a depressing amount of people do believe men are entitled to mold reality to their wishes and that such misogyny is okay, because it is inextricably woven into the lifeblood of identity ideology.

For those keeping score, more former NBA players have spoken up thus far than the single current WNBA player herself. Why is this? It’s not just because they have less to lose as retirees from a different league. They have less to lose as a result of their very sex.

We can call out the cowardice of female players who are not standing up for their teammates, let alone themselves, and we would be right to do so. However, the reality of this ideology and intent of its activism stands: Men are simply not mistreated in the same way as women for daring to speak up. They are not hounded and harassed in the same way, and they are not subjected to sex-based threats and acts of violence — all of which proves yet again that the core goal of this “trans-athlete” movement is to silence women.

This is the stark truth of the gender movement, on and off the court. Yet because so many larping liberals in this world prioritize partisanship and cling to labels of progressivism as flimsy and invisible as these men’s “identities,” a shocking amount of self-proclaimed humanitarians will throw women and absolute reality under the bus. They do this to uphold an abhorrent charade, to cover both the crumbling personal facade they’re hiding behind and the ironic truth they’re hiding from: that those ever-consumed with enforcing their ideals of identity, empathy, and humanity never possess any of their own in the end.

Whether a costume of woman or progressive, there is no better “Emperor’s New Clothes” equivalent in our time. While it certainly requires balls to pretend one is a woman, all attempts to overlook reality and work against it forcefully prove a desperate lack of functioning brains and spines. For the sake of society, it’s high time to expose this sham in a beard as the depravity that it truly is. Though they would clearly rather pass, the WNBA has the ultimate layup of opportunities to assist in this win. The balls are certainly in their own court, and by draft day 2027, we’ll know whether they take an L and allow them or finally remember what that W is supposed to stand for.